Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : PIQI

ᴱ√PIQI root. “*bitter”

⚠️ᴱ√PIQI root. “*bitter”: ᴹ√SAG “*bitter, ⚠️poison”

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. píqa “bitter” and ᴱQ. piqis(se) “grief” (QL/74). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. pigwa “bitter” and G. piglin “urine” (GL/64). Later words for “bitter” were derived from the root ᴹ√SAG.

Reference ✧ QL/74

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. píqa “bitter” ✧ QL/74
- ⇒ ᴱQ. píqele “bitterness” ✧ QL/74
> ᴱQ. piqis(se) “grief” ✧ QL/74
> G. paib “sour”
> G. pigla- “to make urine”
> G. piglin “urine”
> G. pigwa “bitter”